Members of the 2026 cohort represent disciplines spanning the humanities, engineering, sciences and social sciences.

The Institute for Social Science Research is excited to announce an opportunity to provide undergraduate students with hands-on experience in social science research while supporting faculty in ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called UChicago Class Visits, spotlighting transformative classroom experiences and unique learning opportunities offered at UChicago. A career advancement ...

Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from ...

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The Institute for Social Science Research is pleased to announce the selection of the 2025-26 ISSR Scholars. This year's cohort brings an especially strong focus to vital questions in public policy, ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can uncover patterns invisible to common approaches. In their paper titled ...

Researchers from the multi-university Great Salt Lake Social Sciences Network based at Utah State University have released a ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...

For many household surveys in the United States, response rates have been steadily declining for at least the past two decades. A similar decline in survey response can be observed in all wealthy ...

Happiness comes down to a number of factors, but one habit in particular stood out in the vast amounts of research.